Economic Indicators13 hours ago (Feb 28, 2020 09:15AM ET) (Bloomberg) — U.S. personal spending decelerated in January to a still-solid pace, suggesting momentum among American consumers eased somewhat at the start of the year ahead of the coronavirus concerns. Personal spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of the economy, rose […]
India’s Deepening Slowdown Faces Fresh Risks from Virus
ForexFeb 28, 2020 08:35AM ET (Bloomberg) — India’s economy slowed to a more than six-year low in the final three months of last year, and it now faces a fresh threat from the coronavirus outbreak. Data on Friday showed growth decelerated to 4.7% in the three months through December from […]
Katherine Johnson’s Math Will Steer NASA Back to the Moon
Katherine Johnson blazed trails, not just as a black female mathematician during the Cold War, but by mapping literal paths through outer space. Her math continues to carve out new paths for spacecraft navigating our solar system, as NASA engineers use evolved versions of her equations that will execute missions […]
Forget Chess–the Real Challenge Is Teaching AI to Play D&D
Still, GPT-2 has been employed to develop a kind of Dungeon Master. In December 2019, Nick Walton, an undergraduate at Brigham Young University specializing in machine learning, created a text adventure game, AI Dungeon, using GPT-2 to generate open-ended scenarios. Walton says he first played Dungeons & Dragons a few […]
Crude Oil About To Drop 50% And Take Stocks With It?
Crude Oil created its second top back in October of 2018 at (1) and then it proceeded to decline nearly 50%! What did the S&P 500 do while Crude declined 50%? It fell nearly 20% in less than 90-days! The above chart was shared on 1//8/2000, suggesting that Crude Oil […]
The Sea Is Getting Warmer. Will the Shrimp Get Louder?
The ocean is normally a fairly noisy place, with the sounds of happy dolphins, lonely whales and diesel-chugging ships saturating the undersea world. But climate change may turn up the volume on this liquid symphony as warmer sea temperatures boost the volume of noise produced by the small but incredibly […]
German inflation little changed in February, state data shows
EconomyFeb 28, 2020 05:49AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) – Inflation was barely changed in German states in February, data showed on Friday, suggesting the national measure will remain close to but below the European Central Bank’s target and pose no threat to its stimulus policy. The ECB, which targets an inflation […]
OPEC Had Better Get Used to $50-Or-Lower Oil
With Russia finally ending its cat-and-mouse game with OPEC, the world alliance of oil producers hopes to shock the market into a rebound next week by announcing a cut of more than one million barrels per day in output. No matter what the cut ordained by the Organization of the […]
German jobless total unexpectedly falls by 10,000 in February
Economic Indicators6 hours ago (Feb 28, 2020 04:11AM ET) German jobless total unexpectedly falls by 10,000 in February BERLIN (Reuters) – German unemployment dropped unexpectedly in February, the Federal Labour Office said on Friday, suggesting that the strong job market will continue to propel growth in Europe’s largest economy. Data […]
Crude Oil: Crucial Support And Target Area
Crude Oil: The box presents a crucial support and target area. Original Post Crude Oil: Crucial Support And Target Area Disclaimer: All opinions expressed in this blog are solely for information or educational purposes. The blog material does not constitute investment or trading advice. The blog material has no regard […]